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Western sandpipers stop at this B.C. mudflat to fuel up during their 10,000-km migration
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This 84-year-old scientist has spent almost 50 years developing a male contraceptive
Nina Dragicevic
Documentaries Short Docs January 28
How I got this incredible hummingbird footage in a Victoria backyard
Documentaries Short Docs December 26, 2024
For people with narcolepsy, no amount of sleep can help the feeling of being tired
Jenny Lee-Gilmore
Documentaries December 19, 2024
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Everyone says they're tired. Me? I fell asleep behind the wheel and knew something was really wrong
Jenny Lee-Gilmore
Documentaries Short Docs November 26, 2024
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These 'microbial selfies' show how we all have wildly different germs, fungi and yeast growing on our hands
Anna Sigrithur
Documentaries Short Docs June 18, 2024
Roadkill expeditions and a basement full of decaying food: behind the scenes on a film about rot
Nina Dragicevic
Documentaries Short Docs June 18, 2024

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Your pet cat is probably a killer — but it doesn't have to be that way

Documentaries Short Docs March 27, 2024

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Documentaries March 28, 2024

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Documentaries Short Docs February 14, 2024

For 60 days, this cat survived on the 7th floor of a destroyed building in Ukraine

Documentaries March 28, 2024

'I miss my mom a lot': A young man with autism writes a letter to his mother, a PSW who died of COVID-19

Documentaries Short Docs May 10, 2023

He's been searching for his granddaughter since 2015. He's never met her and is not sure where she is

Documentaries Short Docs May 9, 2023

For 3 years, I followed a family searching for a grandchild they've never met

Documentaries Short Docs May 9, 2023

'People used to tell me, 'You shouldn't skate because you're Black''

Documentaries Short Docs March 30, 2023

Inside the ketchup war: what happened after the Heinz factory closed in Leamington, Ont.

Documentaries Short Docs June 3, 2024

'If you have to grow old, this is the place to be.' Friends in their 90s love life in their New Brunswick town

Documentaries Short Docs November 9, 2022

4 tips for surviving your first 100 days on a working holiday visa in Canada

Documentaries Short Docs October 28, 2022

He fled Syria and crossed the Mediterranean in an inflatable boat to pursue his dream of becoming a perfumer

Documentaries Short Docs October 14, 2022

'Don't dim your light': Life lessons I learned from the late Somali-Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh

Documentaries Short Docs October 6, 2022

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Residential school survivor remembers the principal forcing him to run 80 km in a blizzard

Nina Dragicevic

Documentaries Short Docs September 27, 2022

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